Sneakers are not my thing.
BARRY MANILOWI stay glued to my piano and my work. I don’t look up. I write, I produce, I do the next project, I do my job. I don’t look up, and I try to be kind. I try to be kind to people. That’s what I do.
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Everything you say and do is having an impact on others.
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Everybody has to find out: who are you? What do you believe in?
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The melody seems to have gone to the country. The country music seems to still have melody and interesting lyrics. But pop music, you’ve got to really listen hard to somebody who’s doing a good melody and a good lyric.
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I was always into the music. Music, in general, saved my life. But the fame part… I would look up, see what was going on around me, the reporters and photographers and all, and then I would just go back to making my music.
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There’s just no quiet in Vegas.
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I think the people who are out there for fame get themselves in a lot of trouble.
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I believe that we are who we choose to be. Nobody is going to come and save you. You’ve got to save yourself. Nobody is going to give you anything. You’ve got to go out and fight for it.
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When it comes to me, I just write the most beautiful music I can, I do the best work I can, and then I hand it out there.
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If I Should Love Again’ – I was just so impressed with myself writing something like that. It wasn’t a single and people didn’t really know about it, but it’s a beautiful song and that’s part of what I’m loving.
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Yeah, I’m old as the hills and you would think I’d be out to pasture someplace because I’ve done everything, but nothing has changed.
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I couldn’t bear the road anymore. I’m sure that a lot of people who have been on the road a long time will say the same thing. After a while, waiting for bedroom service and planes – I wanted to go home.
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My style of music is the great American songbook meets the pop world of the Seventies and Eighties.
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I didn’t want to be treated like a ‘star.’ I fought it constantly, and I think I was rude.
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My goal was always to be involved in music that would outlive me. And maybe that’s actually happening.
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I am nervous that the craft of songwriting is taking a nose dive…And since I’m a songwriter and I connect with an interpretative, you know, interpretation of a song, I miss it. I just miss it.
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Every few years, I go back into all the songs and I update them so that it never sounds like an oldies show. If you come to the shows, they’re full of muscle. ‘Copacabana’ sounds like it could have been released yesterday.
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The public needs to know – they need to know as much about atrial fibrillation as they do about cancer and diabetes.
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I stay glued to my piano and my work. I don’t look up. I write, I produce, I do the next project, I do my job. I don’t look up, and I try to be kind. I try to be kind to people. That’s what I do.
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We’ve made mistakes, But we’ve made good friends too. Remember all the nights we spent with them? And all our plans, Who says they can’t come true? Tonight’s another chance to start again. It’s just another New Year’s Eve, Another night like all the rest.
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No one person or material thing could ever come close to the feeling I get when the music is right.
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You say something stupid and the next morning you’re in the headlines.
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I’m still hungry. I’ve still got a million ideas. I’m still strong and ready to create.
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Misfits aren’t misfits among other misfits.
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Whenever there was a choice between music and anything else, music won hands down every time.
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My hair was slicked down with a part. But that was before I discovered the blow-dryer. Now I’m fabulous.
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I believe in my writing.
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